Strangers in Paradise – Diana Tishchenko, Zoltán Fejérvári

This enticing album of sonatas by Ravel, Enescu, Ysaÿe, and Prokofiev emerged from violinist Diana Tishchenko’s victory at the 2018 Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris. Born in Ukraine, and trained in Kiev and Berlin, she has been noted by The Strad for her “power to mesmerize the audience with her large gesture and strong personality.” Her musical partnership with the Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári is extraordinarily close and potent. In the words of the French online journal Toute la musique, they are “not two interpreters playing together, but a true musical entity, an artistic fusion.”